Overview

FreeStyle in a Nutshell

FreeStyle Shaper application is a powerful modeling tool used to dynamically design all types of surface elements, from the stylist's drawing to the final surface, ready for the manufacturing processes.

Using this product you can generate free form 3D curves and surfaces from scratch, and dynamically deform and analyze all produced elements.

Using the FreeStyle Optimizer you can create and modify curve and surface shapes based on other elements such as digitized data.

Using FreeStyle Profiler, you can directly create complex surfaces based on profiles and sets of curves in one step, without having to deform them in a second step.

The FreeStyle Shaper, Optimizer & Profiler User's Guide has been designed as an aid to using the FreeStyle Shaper, FreeStyle Optimizer, and FreeStyle Profiler by themselves, but also in conjunction with other workbenches.

Before Reading this Guide

Before reading this guide, you should be familiar with basic Version 6 concepts such as document windows, standard and view toolbars. Therefore, we recommend that you read the Infrastructure User's Guide that describes generic capabilities common to all Version 6 products. It also describes the general layout of Version 6 and the interoperability between workbenches.

Getting the Most Out of this Guide

To get the most out of this guide, we suggest that you start reading and performing the User Tasks section, which deal with handling all the product functions.

The Interface Description section, which describes the commands that are specific to FreeStyle workbench , and the Customizing section, which explains how to customize settings, will also certainly prove useful.

Navigating in the Split View mode is recommended. This mode offers a framed layout allowing direct access from the table of contents to the information